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New Book: Andreas Malm. 2018. The progress of this storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World

Andreas Malm. 2018. The progress of this storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. London: Verso.

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An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other

In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a counterargument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2575-the-progress-of-this-storm

New Book: Raju Das. 2017. Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World

New Book: Vishwas Satgar, ed. 2018. The climate crisis: South African and global democratic eco-socialist alternatives